Esther Garvi is a friend/member of the AfricanLoft Community. She interfaces with two contrasting worlds: Niger and Norway/Sweden, and just lost her mom recently. She’s back with her family in Norway, she reminisces on her second home, Niger, and her mother:
“I wish I could take part of Niger with me everywhere I went. A bit [...]

Nigeria: ITRealms Online reports on Daar Communications:

Pioneer private broadcasting entity in the country, Daar Communications Plc, is dreaming of digitised media powerhouse to serve the needs of the continent and beyond, as the company said at the weekend that the bulk of the fund to be generated from its Initial Public Offer (IPO) would be [...]

Born in England to Nigerian parents, Adoti maybe somewhat of a newcomer to Hollywood , but his star is very much on the rise thanks to roles in movies ‘Amistad, ‘Black Hawk Down’, ‘Doom.’ and ‘Cover’.

A belated deal, but a major step forward in resolving the Kenyan post-election conflict, if fully implemented.

“Broad outlines of a political settlement to break the stalemate have been available for several years, even preceeding President Kibaki’s first term in office, but were never carried out.”

After much violence, mayhem and blood-shed the two players in the Kenyan conflict agree to a deal, at last.
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga have signed a power-sharing agreement which will see the creation of a prime minister post, reports BBC, the details of the power-arrangement can be on the BBC [...]

Amity Shlaes writes via Bloomberg:
You get the sense that politicians these days are racing to match Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett and the rest of the private sector in charity spending… Historians talk about the old scramble for Africa. That was a scramble to get — European monarchs took land for colonies. Now [...]

More dissenting voices about recent vist of U.S president to Africa. RINF, a UK-based, self-described “independent source for under reported news from around the world” states “90% of [US] ‘aid’ ends up in the pockets of US companies”, excerpt:
The tour came with the announcement of millions of dollars of economic assistance from the Overseas [...]

Woven nylon chairs made in the African nation of Togo have been featured in the French magazines Elle, Cote Sud, Atmosphères, Le Journal de La Maison and Printemps as well as the French editions of Vogue and Architectural Digest.
The chairs are being imported in to he United States by Iman Deco, a company run by [...]

The American president, George Bush made huge cuts to UN peacekeeping in Africa, many millions of dollars, on the eve of his trip to Africa, his opening “gift” to the continent. So all the time he was playing benevolent uncle he was taking as much as giving. Since he continues to spend on AFRICOM, and [...]

“A perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize and winner last year of the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement in fiction”, Associated Press writes about the Chinua Achebe, the author of “Things Fall Apart” a novel that “has been translated into more than 30 languages and sales top 10 million copies. No book by [...]